Who Tells Us What To Think? Does The Mainstream Media = The Matrix?

TEC ^ | 2-14-2013 | Michael Snyder

[hosepipe]

Must mean that eskimos talked about snow a lot!

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow

[Mr. Jeeves]

It is time to wake up. Those of us who are awake have a lot to do.

We can't "beat" them. I'm not sure there would be any benefit to humanity even if we could. Given our human natures, another, similar control structure would arise - and very quickly in this time of technological advancement. We want a different illusion than is currently being projected, not what we think we actually want.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The media will complain that they have just so many minutes and have to pick what stories to cover or how much to edit. Of course the editor’s political leanings determine what is left out of the news shows.

First, why use the term, “the media,” when you mean nothing other than journalism? We shouldn’t fear to call out pseudo-objective journalism for what it is. The term “sophistry” is a byword for slippery argumentation, not wisdom - because “Sophists” of ancient Greece used slippery argumentation precisely because they claimed to be wise. The effect of journalists’ claiming to be objective is so like the effect of the Sophists’ claim of wisdom as to make me question whether the journalist’s claim of objectivity is actually a different claim or whether the two claims are actually logically distinct at all. Is there such a thing as “unwise objectivity,” or “unobjective wisdom?”

In any event, no one can make a conscientious attempt at objectivity without being open about any reasons why they might not be objective. And since that openness is the very antithesis of claiming actually to be objective, it is perfectly clear that claiming objectivity is antithetical to making a serious attempt at objectivity.

Claims of journalistic objectivity therefore have no visible means of support - except propaganda power.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The Corporate Media is a gigantic worldwide social control device 95% of which is owned and operated by 6 Corporations.

The situation is far worse than that:

"People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or some contrivance to raise prices." - Adam Smith

. . . and all major journalism outlets have been in a continuous virtual “meeting” via the Associated Press newswire since the middle of the Nineteenth Century! No wonder ideological diversity among news outlets went the way of the dodo bird long ago!